Voice recognition?
Hey gang, how many of you have more than two hands? I run out of available hands very quickly, when transcribing old orchestra scores. I need one hand for the mouse and one as a place-keeper in a complex printed score. If I use my finger placeholder for a keyboard command, I lose my place and waste time.
In comes voice recognition. Is this useful news to anybody? I found a free program, called VoiceMacro 1.4 .
I have defined many of the frequent shortcuts for notation, accidentals, accents, etc and defined them as voice commands. The idea works well and has become a big time saver and error avoider.
I don't wish to violate forum policy. This is an honest suggestion I have been taking advantage of for about a month. I'd rather not post an off-site link, so do a search for the named freeware if you are interested to find the link. The documentation you will find will explain if you can use it. This program will only work under Windows but the Mac world may easily have it's own voice macro utility available.
Comments
A creative solution to your problem! Using speech commands during transcription has not occurred to me before as a viable method of input (but I'm also rather proficient in all keyboard shortcuts).